Community Agreements

We provide a space where people can expect to work in an atmosphere free of racist, sexist, homophobic, ableist, and unjust attitudes, comments, behaviors, and actions. In order to provide this space, we:

• Avoid and interrupt microaggressions.
• Are cognizant of positionality and power, particularly when accepting and offering critique.
• Avoid and do not condone harassment or discrimination, including “unwelcome or offensive verbal comments (including jokes) or nonverbal expressions related to: age; appearance or body size; employment or military status; ethnicity; gender identity or expression; individual lifestyles; marital status; national origin; physical or cognitive ability; political affiliation; sexual orientation; race; or religion. Harassment can also include use of sexual and/or discriminatory images in public spaces (including online); deliberate intimidation; stalking; following; harassing photography or recording; sustained disruption of talks or other events; bullying behavior; inappropriate physical contact; and unwelcome sexual attention.” (DLF Code of Conduct, https://www.diglib.org/about/code-of-conduct/)
• Center reparative and redistributive frameworks to actively confront histories of exclusion of people with marginalized identities within our collections.
• Affirm the gender identities of all people in the Archives. 
• Strive to center disability justice and to make our collections and spaces accessible to people with disabilities.

Archives staff take the privacy of researchers seriously. The Archives website and Archives staff actions are covered by the Barnard College Data Privacy Policy and Data Access Policy.

• In order to provide quality service to our patrons, Archives staff maintain a log of requests that we receive on an internal Google Docs spreadsheet. This log includes patron names, method of contact, contact information, the contents of requests, and steps taken to fulfill requests. We do not share the content of researchers’ requests outside of those working to fulfill such requests. We may, however, share de-identified or summarized data about our services and requests (e.g. the number of research requests in a year, or the most frequently used collections) as part of evaluating and enhancing our services. 
• Barnard College access policies currently require Archives staff to request permission in advance for non-BC/CU ID holders to enter campus.  Researchers' name, visit date and time, and destination on campus are submitted to the Office of the Provost and Community Safety team for review and approval.  Community Safety may ask non-BC/CU ID holders to produce photo identification when entering and exiting campus.
• You can send scans to yourself from the Scannx scanner in the reading room. The email account from which the scans are sent to researchers' emails is not monitored and sent email is deleted automatically (and the trash emptied automatically after 30 days).
• Barnard’s use of Google apps is bound by the G Suite for Education privacy notice; for more information, please see the Google privacy and security center. Additional information about how Google handles retention of deleted data is available here.
• If you, our patron, would like us to remove your information from our request log, opt out entirely from this tracking, or ask for any further protection of your privacy, please contact us at 212-854-4079 or archives@barnard.edu. We will make our best effort to accommodate your request. 

We want the archives to be a welcoming and positive space. We support and affirm the needs of our users and their access to collections, and try to not put up additional barriers to access. Learn more about our commitments to access on the Information for your Visit page.